The VBA Stack represents a simple last-in-first-out (LIFO) non-generic collection of objects. The VBA Stack is useful in situations when you want to first process items which were added last. The VBA Stack can be compared to a stack of cards – you can put cards on top in a certain order but then you are expected to pick them up in the reverse order.
Other VBA Data Structures
VBA Stack example
Dim stack as Object
Set stack = CreateObject("System.Collections.Stack") 'Create Stack
stack.Push "Hello"
stack.Push "There"
stack.Push "Mr"
stack.Push "Smith"
peekAtTopOfStack = stack.Peek()
doesContain = stack.Contains("htrh") 'Result: False
doesContain = stack.Contains("Hello") 'Result: True
'Get item from the top of the stack (LIFO)
topStack = stack.Pop() 'Result: "Smith"
'Clear the Stack
stack.Clear
Set stack = Nothing
Stacks are useful when in need of dynamic data structure that changes size, while adding and removing elements from it in the opposite sequence with which they were placed on the stack. A stack is a LIFO queue (last in first out). For FIFO data structure check out the VBA Queue.
